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2024

a beautiful tatami table donated by Boris

the after sesshin tasks.... washing laundry

...disposing of one week of garbage.....

The rats managed to eat through the metal mesh lining of the garbage box :(

New blankets to keep the sangha warm

a helpful angel came by

three spirea japonica donated by Evelin and Werner

Fallen chestnuttree flowers look like snow

Flowers everywhere

Ohhhh, something heavy arrived

looks like a Japanese lantern

donated by ShoE´s parents friends

Yukimi Doro - snow viewing lantern

Mysterious Box appeared - maybe a donation?

Can you spot it?

A mini lantern donated by Barbara and Klaus

April Osesshin Memorial Foto

all together 86 people participated in the sesshin

Jorin as always giving and doing his best

One more wall is being insulated

Jorin in Samu Samadhi

up high...

Finally the holes on the road get fixed

1. May sign is up

Seitoku showing his gap closing skills

Michaela planting cosmea everywhere

It will be beautiful in the summer

A perfect job

bricks around the baking house

Well done

Thank you Roshi Sama for coming

Yuppiieeeh

April Zoom Sesshin Members

The book is getting a Memorial stamp

Great thanks to our Main Tenzo

And to the Macha serving team

and to Seitoku for the beautiful flowers

Mumon Roshi is now joining us in the sanzen room

Myorin came for the open day to sit zazen with us

Happy 14th Birthday Hokuozan !!!

Words of wisdom by Tokuju Koji

Ikko getting to the base....

... of almost 200 year old liberty...

... look how strong the foundation has become !!!

Thanks to Ikko´s skills

Basti did a great cleaning and sorting in the TZ

Finally Spring !!!

Time for the Botan Sakura to show

its true beauty

Ikko onto the next old and crumbling foundation

Look. how solid they have become

Another crumbling wall....

The master at work making it strong and long lasting again

The artistic side of Ikko shows by making perfectly matching doors

These bricks are only to be used for repairing the old buildings

By Ikko Zenji himself

The stone master´s tools

A mini museum of old macenry tools

Looks like sesshin will start soon

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh This looks like trouble

the sewage pump´s pipe is leaking

We need a new pump system

from this....

... blocking the pipe going out during work...

to this shiny new system

the attic has gotten a spring cleaning

as well as the sangha shelves

which left us with a lot of unknown shoes - are any of them yours which we shall keep for you?

Organized samugi cupboard

Please keep it nce and easy to use for the sangha

same applies for the Samu clothes

Chose carefully and then return in a nicely folded manner

Luckily the broken piece of the compost lid was found

Please, next time just tell us when something breaks - that makes it a lot easier for us !

The washing room wall is finally finished

Spring is here a few weeks earlier

The bees are out and about

MANKAI - full blossom

with a beautiful sunset

Thanks to Gentsu and Liduin

The non breakable bird houses found a welcoming spot

Thanks to Evelin and Werner for shelling ALL the walnuts (this is just a small part of it)

Such important words....

found the right spot - right next to the columbarium to be

Great joy !

a screw sorting shelf from our neighbor

Jihatsus are being assembled for the next sesshin

New table and sink for the kitchen - hard work to pull off the plastic cover :(

Finally the wooden rotten door

is being replaced professionally

Great Job !!!

Excellent cement job :)

February Zoom Sesshin Sangha

The insulation team in the attick - Thanks so much!

The old kitchen top and sink are getting rotten

they served in the kitchen for 12 years

Is he happy because of the sink or the mochi?

The strawberry mochi team

Will this work?

a break to gather energy again

and on we go...

Looks already excellent

to be continued tomorrow

January Osesshin Memorial Foto

with the sangha members who stayed to the end :)

There it is...

.. our lucky rain bow for the New Year

A great beginning !

Sharing the greetings of the Roshi

The Ichigodaifuku team - delicius mochi for the January sesshin

Cold and bright days

Towels donated by Barbara

Basti in chainsaw mode

some more fire wood from the neighbors

Books donated by Peter

New Year Sesshin Participants - sitting in silence into the New Year

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